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Quiz Climber to soar on Smart TV with PlayJam

PlayJam will launch successful social trivia game Quiz Climber: World Edition by Relentless Software across their global connected TV gaming platform.

Developers behind Sony’s BAFTA award-winning game franchise Buzz!™, Relentless debuted their Quiz Climber app on the iPhone earlier this year, already having attracted one million plus gameplays. Quiz Climber is an extremely straightforward yet amazingly addictive social quiz, where players pit their knowledge against friends and family by answering questions on a variety of topics including pop culture, sport, history and literature. A cute squirrel ‘Quizzel’ represents each player and climbs the leaderboard to overtake others with each correct consecutive answer given. The higher Quizzel climbs, the more difficult the questions become. Players compete weekly for the top position.

Relentless has partnered with PlayJam to bring social games to the fast growing connected TV space via its aggregated games portal. The world’s largest TV network, PlayJam delivers a mix of in-house and leading brand titles to millions of connected TV devices from leading manufacturers including Samsung, LG, Sony and Panasonic. PlayJam provides consumers globally with easy access to an extensive library of casual and social games at the touch of a button on the remote control.

Playjam’s network is a social engagement and monetization platform that drives increased revenue and customer loyalty through core features such cross-network tournaments, leader-boards, real-time mass participation events, virtual currencies and recommendations.  PlayJam has launched a beta SDK to provide game developers with a simple one-stop route to global games distribution via TV.

Says PlayJam's Commercial Director, Anthony Johnson, "Quiz Climber: World Edition is the perfect game for PlayJam’s connected TV network. Highly compelling, competitive and lots of fun, its ideal entertainment for playout on the home’s biggest screen.”

“Smart TV is a perfect platform for our vision of games for everyone,” comments Relentless’ says CEO Andrew Eades. “Smart TV sales will outstrip that of consoles for the first time in 2011 and PlayJam is at the forefront of this TV games revolution.”